One group is recognized for their hard work- not just inside the hospital, but outside the walls as well.

The ICU Team was named this year’s Daisy Team Award winners.

This team spearheaded an initiative to serve food and provide dry, clean toiletries to a nearby homeless encampment, and this meant coming in several weekends to sort and prepare donated items.

Then, on the weekend they were serving food- it poured! The team didn’t give up though, they toughed it out- and many folks who might have gone hungry that day had a hot meal.

The Daisy Foundation was formed by the Barnes Family in 1999 after the loss of their 33-year-old son J. Patrick Barnes. The nursing care that their son received when hospitalized profoundly touched his family, and they wanted to recognize nurses that provide exceptional care…while often stating, “I am just doing my job.”

Your jobs touch the hearts and lives of more than you know. The Daisy Foundation was developed to celebrate nurses.

The Daisy Nurse award is presented quarterly to SNVMC nurses who meet a high standard of care provided. The award was developed for the celebration of nurses who provide extraordinary compassionate and skillful care every day.

According to court documents, Michael Gerald Moody, 44, admitted that, between 2017 and February 2018, he used a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct and he captured numerous images of that conduct with his cell phone. In addition, Moody engaged in text chats with other individuals through the online messaging application Kik Messenger. These chats principally focused on the exchange of images of child sexual abuse and discussions of the sexual abuse of children. In the course of these chats, Moody distributed child pornography, including images that he himself produced, as well as other images, to at least eight other individuals.

Moody pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child pornography and one count of distributing child pornography and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison when sentenced on September 14. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

One person is dead this morning, the victim of a stabbing. More as we have it.

From Prince William police:

INCIDENT: Homicide Investigation | Manassas

Officers are currently investigating a fatal stabbing in the 7500 block of Prince Cole Ct. Two victims were stabbed during an altercation, one has died. Suspect not in custody.

Investigation is continuing.

Update from Prince William police:

Homicide Investigation – On May 16 at 4:58AM, officers responded to the 7500 block of Prince Cole Ct in Manassas (20111) to investigate a stabbing. Officers arrived on scene and located two victims, both identified as adult males, suffering from stab wounds.

Both victims were transported to an area hospital where one of the victims died as a result of his injuries. The other victim is expected to survive.

The altercation appeared to have occurred outside in a parking lot. At this time, no suspect has been identified. Detectives from the Homicide Unit are actively investigating the stabbing to determine what led up to the altercation. The investigation continues.

Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to contact Prince William County Police at 703-792-6500.

Potomac Parent is a monthly column that looks at life through the eyes of real parents. This month, we interview Kristina.

1. What time you do wake up? I’m still on chemotherapy treatments until around August, so getting out of bed is not my favorite. I’m usually up around 7, 7:30, but not functionally out of bed until 8 or so.

2. What are your children’s names and ages? Riley is 14, Logan is 12 and Savannah is 10.

3. What’s the most difficult part about your morning routine? Our mornings usually work pretty well, actually. Each of my kids has a laminated sheet with their morning list on it, so they do their chores, eat breakfast and get ready for the day on their own. It’s a perk of having older kids. We homeschool, so as long as they’re ready to start devotions by 9 a.m., they’re good to go.

4. What is your morning beauty or grooming routine? I tend to shower at night so that I have time to do my hair, so in the mornings I keep it pretty basic — just brushing, moisturizing, and clothes, although if I’m going out I’ll do my makeup. I am trying to be better about that now that I’m in my mid-thirties. I’ve definitely noticed that people react better to my face when it’s made up, and they ask me if I’m feeling okay if it’s not. That’s definitely a sign I need a little help!

5. Are you a coffee or tea person? Yes. I enjoy a nice cappuccino or hazelnut latte, but at home I usually go for tea. Iced Lipton with lemon (no sugar), or Numi Organic Chai with half and half and honey, or Tazo Lemon Cake are some of my favorites.

6. What do you do once the kids are in school?My kids are homeschooled, so when they’re in school, I’m in school. Balancing their coursework with my own responsibilities can seem like a lot, but for the most part, we’ve got it down to a science. I write, run my website and plan my lessons for classes I teach outside our home in the “between times” when everyone is working independently.

7. What kind of work do you do outside the home? Until January, I was Delegate Rich Anderson’s community outreach coordinator, and I run PwcMoms.com. I also teach classes at Capital Baptist Coop, and I volunteer in our community and through our church. However, I think that my work inside our home raising our kids is the most important thing that I do, and I think that it’s okay to think that. For a lot of moms that choose to stay home, it can feel like people are looking down on your decision, so I just want to validate that it’s a legitimate choice.

8. What is the biggest challenge of trying to get work done – any work – with your schedule and responsibilities? I think that as moms, prioritizing our time is really hard because we’re all kind of stuck in that “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” mode where you start one thing and then notice another that needs to get done. It’s really easy to walk downstairs with a basket of laundry and notice the kitchen needs cleaning and then realize you haven’t started dinner and then you get a phone call for work — it just kind of snowballs. I try to take time to plan the deliberate parts of my day — phone calls scheduled during certain times, to-do list items that must get done, and then I can always go back to my list to feel like I’ve accomplished something that day when I see the completed tasks.

9. What do you wear during the work week? If it’s winter, I’m probably in jeans and a sweater, wishing I lived in Southern California. If it’s not winter, I’m a big fan of dresses and skirts. Since I generally work from home, it would be really easy for me to stay in pajamas or sweats all day, but I did the Fly Lady system for a long time, which requires you to get up and get dressed and take your day seriously, and that really stuck with me.

10. What’s the craziest thing that happened to you so far this week? I’m teaching a Biography in Writing class at our homeschool coop this year, and that can get really dicey when people cancel at the last minute — so probably having to ad-hoc a class around watching a YouTube video interview of Colonel Sanders from KFC fame.

11. Do you have pets? We do not. We have had bunnies in the past, but right now we are pet-free, which is, honestly, kind of nice. I still want a dog though, but that would require my husband completely abandoning all of his moral principles, so it’s probably not gonna happen.

12. How do you get through the hard times? Without sounding preachy, I am a big believer in relying on God. My Christian faith helps me to keep things in perspective, and to know that there is someone bigger than me that I can lean on when things are overwhelming. It also provides me with other women to look to as mentors, and friends who will pray for me and help me during the really hard times. Having been through two cancer diagnoses, my definition of “hard” is also a lot different now than it was before. Crying kids and burning dinner pale in comparison with facing your own mortality at 29, so I keep things in a lot better perspective because of that. There’s a tradition in Judaism (my degree is in comparative religion) where you break off a piece of bread dough and burn it as an offering to God before you make the loaves, and I love that, because the idea is that you’re giving your sacrifice before you know how it turns out and God honors your effort, not the outcome. As moms, we’re working every day on these little people and we’re not really able to see the outcome yet, but I believe that God accepts our efforts in much the same way. We’re all just trying our best.

13. What’s you favorite color?Grey. And glitter.

14. What kind of car do you drive?

A Dodge Grand Caravan. If you would have told me that a minivan would become my dream car, I probably would’ve jumped off the Empire State Building in my junior year of high school, but I really do love it. I wish it had the automatic sliding doors, though, because my children’s friends are super confused by the fact that they have to shut the doors themselves.

15. If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?

This question legitimately seems like something you got from my children to torture me with. They love asking me random, frequently ridiculous, hypothetical questions. I refuse this question on principle.

Fatal Crash Investigation – On May 11 at 7:18PM, investigators from the Crash Investigation Unit responded to the area of Portsmouth Rd and Deward Ct in Manassas (20109) to investigate a crash involving a motorcycle.

The investigation revealed that the operator of a 2015 Kawasaki Ninja 650 motorcycle was traveling westbound on Portsmouth Rd just west of Deward Ct. The operator lost control of the motorcycle and struck two parked vehicles. The operator of the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the hospital. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. The operator was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. The investigation continues.

Identified:

The operator of the 2015 Kawasaki Ninja 650 motorcycle was identified as Luis Enrique CHIRINO RODRIGUEZ, 25, of Manassas

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